After the cloud of ideas and subjects on the last post,
giving the clear idea that I should keep this blog more
up-to-date, here is an important note that is missing
(including old news that I should had post but didn't, sorry
for that). I'm aware that a few people are interested in how
the Debian NM process evolves from person to person, on my
last update on that topic, I told you that I was
recommended to the DAM by my AM. Almost three months later
(2006-11-18) Myon (Christoph Berg, Front Desk Member)
couldn't find my final report, he pinged my AM and one week
later everything was fine again and I got approved to the
next step: DAMnation. On the Christmas' evening I got
a nice gift from Joerg, DAM approval. Yesterday (2007-01-02)
I got the nice e-mail with the subject: New Debian
maintainer Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (Thanks to James
Troup, aka, elmo).

The entire process took me 8 months and 10 days. I would
like to say thanks to everybody that helped me pass thru
this experience: Otavio Salvador (my advocate and mentor),
Christian Perrier and Luk Claes (Mentors and Uploaders),
Clément Stenac (my AM), Christoph Berg (Front Desk),
Joerg
Jaspert and James Troup (DAMs). They are directly involved
in my NM process, but they were not alone, thanks for every
single person that helped me with tips and hints, that took
some time to teach me and all the people behind different
projects in Debian (I really start naming everybody but then
I realize that it got very large for Planet): Debian Brasil,
Debian Volatile (aba, zobel, sgran), Release Team, Debian
Women, Debian i18n Task Force and Debian l10n Brazilian
Portuguese, Debian Weekly News Team, buildd.net project,
Alioth admins and staff, Debian Installer Team, Debian
Kernel Team, Debian Mentors, DebConf Team, OFTC Staff,
Debian QA Team, Debian Doc Team, Debian WWW Team, Debian
Admin Team (DSA)! People, you know who you are, thank you
VERY much!

You can check my Status
Page to see more details about my NM process and more
information about the acronyms used on this post. Now,
Brazil has 17 Debian Developers (not counting the one that
already retired). :-)